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If space is an issue, or if you want to grow tomatoes from a trellis, try the top-down method. Also, don’t forget to enter my draw

January 26, 2009

When I was a kid, my mother often made upside down applesauce cake for dessert. It was topped with fresh cream from our cow Betsy that I daily tethered and hand-milked after school. Who would know that years later gardeners are growing upside down tomatoes. Art Klassen, 81, of Newton, Man., tells me gardening is […] Read more

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The first step in setting up a precision farming system that will pay off is to first identify what influences the variability in yield within your fields

By Jay Whetter January 26, 2009

“Factors that affect crop yield are intrinsically linked to the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil.” —Roger Lawes. Roger Lawes says variable-rate applications are not widely adopted because “farmers have struggled to use the technology and they have been overwhelmed with information.” Part of the problem, says the agronomist with Australia’s CSIRO, is that […] Read more

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The full implications of COOL are yet unknown

By Jerry Klassen January 26, 2009

The fed cattle market in Southern Alberta was hovering in the range of $82 to $85 in early January. At the same time, market ready cattle were trading at $84 to $85 in the U. S. southern plains. The market is still struggling with the demand equation despite the potential for lower beef supplies during […] Read more

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of efficient and durable design

January 26, 2009

Providing farmers with quality equipment based on simple design and innovative engineering has long been a tradition synonymous with the Versatile name. In fact, that is exactly how the company got its start. Peter Pakosh, one of the two founders, first used that principle to design a revolutionary new grain auger in the basement of […] Read more

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We can create prescription maps and apply product at variable rates across the field. What we need is good science to tell us which practices pay off

January 26, 2009

We’ve use a lot of ink these days talking about precision agriculture. At the recent Agri-Trend conference in Saskatoon, I heard several presentations on the topic and was heartened by what I heard. One presentation pointed out that precision agriculture covers a very broad front and can involve drainage (a swear word in many circles), […] Read more

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Alberta specialist reports that weeds are weeds no matter where you go

By Kim Nielsen January 26, 2009

(EDITOR’S NOTE: It is a long way from Rocky Mountain House Alberta to the State of Victoria in southeast Australia, but here is the first report by Alberta’s Clearwater County ag fieldman Kim Nielsen. Nielsen arrived in Australia in December and will be filing reports during his six month adventure.) Having just recently arrived in […] Read more

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Genesis tractors reborn with new technology

January 26, 2009

The Versatile tractor family has two new faces: the 250 and 280. These rigid-frame, row-crop tractors are the result of an evolution that began with the former Genesis line. But they’ve come a long way from their Genesis forerunners. They’ve come so far, in fact, that the Genesis name has been dropped entirely. That seems […] Read more

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Precision Q&A – for Jan. 26, 2009

January 26, 2009

Send us your question Do you have a precision farming question that you’d like the Grainews Precision Q&A team to answer? Please send your question to the editor, Jay Whetter, at [email protected] call him at 807-468-4006. Warren Bills, president of GeoFarms Solutions in Calgary, provides the question and the answer this time. He says this […] Read more

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Animal care message strengthened

January 26, 2009

Cracking down on the neglect of animals is the primary focus of changes to Manitoba’s Animal Care Act, which was amended and reintroduced in late 2008. Proposed amendments include: developing a public registry of licensed pet breeders that would allow the public to easily locate reputable breeders prior to purchasing a family pet; requiring pet […] Read more

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Versatile adds easy financing to its reputation for easy servicing

January 26, 2009

Saving time and resources is important to today’s food producers. And now, Versatile has added new programs that do both. Farming more acres than ever before, individual producers have to cover a lot of ground in a short time. Their success depends on speed, and time saved with easy, efficient servicing. This equals more hours […] Read more

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If space is an issue, or if you want to grow tomatoes from a trellis, try the top-down method. Also, don’t forget to enter my draw

The first step in setting up a precision farming system that will pay off is to first identify what influences the variability in yield within your fields

The full implications of COOL are yet unknown

of efficient and durable design

We can create prescription maps and apply product at variable rates across the field. What we need is good science to tell us which practices pay off

Alberta specialist reports that weeds are weeds no matter where you go

Genesis tractors reborn with new technology

Precision Q&A – for Jan. 26, 2009

Animal care message strengthened

Versatile adds easy financing to its reputation for easy servicing

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